Brian Baxter

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From big bankruptcies and large personalities to lateral moves and M&A deals, Brian Baxter is a reporter and editor based in New York covering the business of law in all its forms. Contact him at bbaxter@alm.com. You won’t find him on Twitter.

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Steven Metro was wrongly sentenced based on the entire $4.6 million proceeds of an insider trading scheme, despite the fact that others were involved, according to a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

The London-based legal giant is poised to take on 60 paralegals and launch a new low-cost legal services center in England after purchasing the legal services arm of insolvent British construction company Carillion plc.

Christopher Brearton, a high-profile entertainment, sports and media partner hired by Latham & Watkins from O’Melveny & Myers in late 2014, is switching to a top business side role at movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The last and first months of any year traditionally see a fair amount of turnover in the partnership ranks at many law firms. Jones Day, one of the world's largest by head count, has had a busy revolving door during the past two months.

The head of Shearman & Sterling's European capital markets group is headed to Milbank, only a few days after the latter bolstered its London base with a four-partner team from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.

Latham & Watkins has expanded its London litigation group with two hires from Hogan Lovells, the latter of which has bolstered its energy and infrastructure practice with a pair of new partners of its own.

The global legal giant has become the latest large law firm to shutter an outpost in the Middle East, although it still has three bases in the restive region. Another small outpost in Kazakhstan has also been closed.

A workplace dispute between John Mendoza and Major Langer, name partners at what was once Perona, Langer, Beck, Serbin, Mendoza and Harrison, ended in an office holiday party shooting on Dec. 29 that claimed the lives of both lawyers.

Papers filed on Dec. 28 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicate that the regulator has resolved its proceedings against Joel Sanders. A similar agreement was unable to be reached with former Dewey & LeBoeuf executive director Stephen DiCarmine.

William Graham, a former lawyer at the high-powered, Washington, D.C.-based Am Law 100 firm and a son of late Washington Post publisher Kay Graham, died on Dec. 20 in Los Angeles from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Kennedys, an insurance-focused British firm that has been busy in recent weeks scooping up Sedgwick defectors, has now struck a deal in Puerto Rico on the heels of opening six offices in Latin America within the past 18 months.

The BBC and Guardian Media Group plc are prepared to defend themselves after leading offshore firm Appleby
retains Osborne Clark for potential breach of confidence proceedings stemming from the "Paradise Papers" hack.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer private equity partner David Higgins is poised to become co-managing partner of the London office at Kirkland & Ellis, which has also brought on several more lawyers from Debevoise & Plimpton in New York.

Doug Jones, a name partner at Birmingham’s Jones & Hawley and a former partner at Haskell Slaughter and Whatley Drake, stunned Republican candidate Roy Moore in a special U.S. Senate election in Alabama.

Private equity giant The Carlyle Group LP has invested an undisclosed sum in New York-based Prime Clerk, a bankruptcy claims administrator started by former Weil, Gotshal & Manges partner Shai Waisman.

Two years after Crowell & Moring named government contracts partner Angela Styles its new leader, the firm is poised to pass that role to Philip Inglima, a member of Crowell & Moring's white-collar and regulatory enforcement group.

Peter Gray, a former partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Dubai who was suspended from the firm in 2015 for his role in a dispute with a Djibouti businessman, is merging his small firm with an outfit from the United Arab Emirates.

Steven McKinney, a former chair of the American Bar Association's section on environmental energy and resources, has been charged with fellow Balch & Bingham partner Joel Gilbert and a coal mining company executive in an alleged bribery scheme involving former Alabama state Rep. Oliver Robinson Jr.

Steven McKinney, a former chair of the American Bar Association's section on environmental energy and resources, has been charged with fellow Balch & Bingham partner Joel Gilbert and a coal mining company executive in an alleged bribery scheme involving former Alabama state Rep. Oliver Robinson Jr.

The two firms, which have partnered up on Chapter 11 cases for Gymboree and Gordmans, have now submitted court papers showing how much they intend to charge—and have already been paid—for their roles representing another ailing retailer. Another bankrupt Kirkland client paid $47.5 million to the firm within the past year.

Steven McKinney, a former chair of the ABA's section on environmental energy and resources, has been indicted with fellow Balch & Bingham partner Joel Gilbert and a coal mining company executive over an alleged scheme to bribe former Alabama state representative and ex-National Basketball Association player Oliver Robinson Jr.

The Ontario Securities Commission, a Canadian regulator, has charged former Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg legal assistant Donna Hutchinson in Toronto with insider trading. Davies Ward is one of the largest law firms in Canada.

Constance Ramos, who left Winston & Strawn's partnership in August to start her own Oakland, California-based intellectual property boutique, has accused the firm of sexual discrimination and retaliation in a suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court.

Ralph Baxter Jr., a former CEO of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe who retired to West Virginia four years ago, will announce Tuesday that he is going to run for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. He spoke with The American Lawyer about the path that led him to pursue a new career in public service.

King & Spalding partner Bobby Burchfield, the Trump Organization's top ethics counsel, and ex-Hogan Lovells partner Ty Cobb, who joined the White House this summer as a member of the president's legal defense team in special counsel Robert Mueller III's Russia investigation, saw their names emerge in two eyebrow-raising reports.

Former Dewey & LeBoeuf and Jones Day associate Frank Salzano is trying to help his star client—Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott—get back on the field for the start of the National Football League season, now less than two weeks away.

Terrell “Terry” Iandiorio, a 46-year-old litigation and government enforcement counsel at Ropes & Gray in Boston, drowned in a rip current last week in Nantucket, a popular island vacation spot off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

The two Am Law 100 firms are advising the National Basketball Association and Los Angeles Lakers, respectively, in an investigation into whether the latter tampered with former Indianapolis Pacers star forward Paul George.

Terrell “Terry” Iandiorio, a 46-year-old litigation and government enforcement counsel at Ropes & Gray in Boston, drowned in a rip current last week in Nantucket, a popular island getaway off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Wachtell, Skadden, Proskauer Rose, Foley & Lardner and Akerman are among a handful of large law firms advising on the proposed $1.2 billion sale of Major League Baseball's Miami Marlins to an ownership group led by former New York Yankees star Derek Jeter and venture capitalist Bruce Sherman.

Japanese auto parts giant Takata Corp., which followed its U.S. unit into a Delaware bankruptcy court this week, revealed in court documents that it is paying nearly $1 million per month in legal fees to an Am Law 100 firm advising it in product liability litigation over faulty air bags.

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